Death by a thousand curb-cuts: Evidence on the effect of minimum parking requirements on the choice to drive

Transport Policy

Volumn 20, Issue , 2012, Pages 93-102

  Weinberger, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mode choice; Parking; Residential parking; Travel behavior

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; JOURNEY TO WORK; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARKING; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859003812     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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